Therapeutic landscapes
Subtitle: A history of English hospital gardens since 1800
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Jun 18, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780719086601
Description: "Therapeutic landscapes uniquely brings together historical and contemporary debates on the use of the garden as a therapeutic space. Hickman narrates the story of the landscapes associated with psychiatric, general and specialist medical institutions and asks what did they look like, how were they used and how did this relate to medical concepts? It traces the history of these gardens from the grottos, Chinese galleries and summer houses of elite nineteenth-century lunatic asylums, through Florence Nightingale's championing of the Victorian pavilion hospital design with its courtyard gardens, and the open-air institutions of the Edwardian period with their revolving chalets. It concludes with a discussion of new hospital gardens being created by designers such as Dan Pearson in the twenty-first century."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Source title: Therapeutic landscapes: A history of English hospital gardens since 1800